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Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy

Ideas of India

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Is There a Connection Between Prime Minister Power and the PMO?

The license going to charge really locks in in the 70s onwards. There's a lot of discretion right you can literally lose your entire life's work overnight as it happens with banks and so on. So I think there is some change of mind but even today Indian industry is extremely protectionist because it benefits them. Under Nehru there is a deference some might argue an excessive deference towards technocracy whereas it's the opposite today.

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